May 03, 2020 from Randall Degges The Feature Snowball The “feature snowball”, as I like to call it, is a product and time management technique I’ve been successfully implementing for the last 10 years or so. I’ve used it across many personal projects,...
Apr 28, 2020 from Karl Bartel's Website Suckless Software on My Desktop Suckless Software on My Desktop I took a look at which simple programs I could use as a desktop environment instead of Gnome and picked out the following ones st as a terminal dwm as a window manag...
Apr 28, 2020 from Karl Bartel's Website Suckless Software on My Desktop Suckless Software on My Desktop I took a look at which simple programs I could use as a desktop environment instead of Gnome and picked out the following ones st as a terminal dwm as a window manag...
Apr 19, 2020 from Coding Horror Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really borin...
Apr 19, 2020 from Karl Bartel's Website Exercises in Simplicity Exercises in Simplicity The more time I spent on software development, the more I come to appreciate simplicity. When software is buggy, slow or lacking features, that is annoying. But as long as i...
Apr 19, 2020 from Karl Bartel's Website Exercises in Simplicity Exercises in Simplicity The more time I spent on software development, the more I come to appreciate simplicity. When software is buggy, slow or lacking features, that is annoying. But as long as i...
Apr 08, 2020 from Max Brenner Integrating cdk8s with Flux After I got used to cdk8s I was curious how well it integrates with some current continuous delivery tools for Kubernetes. Therefore I sat down for a quick session for integrating it with Flux. I w...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Mar 30, 2020 from Max Brenner cdk8s, the future of Kubernetes application deployments? Hint: As cdk8s is fairly new at the time of this writing expect that things will change/have changed. Intro cdk8s (probably cloud development kit for Kubernetes) is a new framework released by AWS ...
Mar 27, 2020 from Remains of the Day My Pandemic Zoom Setup Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at, and then asking me about, my Zoom setup. It’s actually not all that elaborate. I know many people ...
Mar 21, 2020 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog Exploring Immutable Infrastructure with Vault During the last year, I have been curious about Immutable Infrastructure. After researching, I noticed that I had been applying some of these concepts already to stateless Docker containers, and I ...
Mar 12, 2020 from Remains of the Day Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 14, 2020 from seize the dev A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows A guide to compiling C programs on Windows, with all the gotchas in one place.
Feb 05, 2020 from PREPEND Cleaning up Tableau workbook files to remove the inline thumbnails I like to track my Tableau visualization projects in git to protect against screwups and for curiosity of what previous versions looked like. Theoretically, it might help with collaborators working...
